Just got word from Haddad that he's updated their Soundcard & Speakers tweaking Guide! Here's what he's saying.

We have been hard at work at TechSpot with some articles that will be posted soon. The first to see the light is our updated Soundcard & Speakers tweak guide that has gone through a series of minor changes plus one big addition, now covering Creative's Extigy soundcard.

Just saw this @ Xp-erience.org

We have just had this guide mailed in to us, it is very useful to be able to change your CD key without having to Format ...... Especially useful if you happen to loose or forget your old Corporate Key somehow (easily done) and want to enter a new key in.

Its a simple procedure, the guide below takes you through it Step by Step.

The MSX Resource Center tested six popular MSX emulators for the Windows platform and compared them to each other. Are emulators as good as the real thing? Does all MSX software run on every emulator? Which of these emulators is the best choice? This and more in the first MSX Resource Center Emulator Comparison. URL? Msx.org

Gigabyte have released some new BIOS files. For the full list hit read more.

Over @ Extremecooling they have posted a guide on (you guessed it) making a fan bus. As they say Do check it out! For under $4 US you can make one too. I'm off the get some parts ;-)Read more for info and link.

A new revision of our 3D GameGauge performance test suite has been a long time coming. We all know that most of the current games used as benchmarks are getting very long in the tooth. Quake 3, although a great engine that can still power compelling games, is perhaps the poster child of a basic problem: we've been using the same games to test for far too long, and many new and powerful 3D features capable of being processed by our high-speed PCs and graphics boards are not being utilized.

Do you wonder what will happen to your Outlook Express folders, address book, message rules, etc. when a hard drive crash happens? It will happen, sometime, someday. Read on to find out a solution to your worries.

It seems there are two issues with the current Highpoint driver / BIOS release 2.31 for their RAID controllers utilized on Abit motherboards and others. At least some users report a broken System Restore feature in Windows XP and some users also find their harddisk performance lowered may it be RAID or not although Highpoint claims to have improved performance with the current release.

The article takes a look at what the differences in emphasis are between a current consumer cards and a workstation product such as Wildcat III and how that effects performance under different circumstances. The majority of the article, though, is concerned with Wildcat III's 16 sample 'SuperScene' AntiAliasing in how its achieved and the benefits it an bring. Given that FSAA on consumer cards are getting ever more advanced and giving better quality outputs I though I'd take a look at the best there currently is for the PC platform to see what possibly may be in store for us in the future. And, yes, there are some 16 sample AA screenshots to ogle @!

I was just over @ Rightmark.org when I noticed the Audigy testing guide in the download section! I might be mistaking but I've not see this before.

Audigy testing guide (129 Kbytes) from Creative for setup details of the soundcard. This guide shows you how to configure the Audigy for a test run in Rightmark.

If you want to try it out hit Read More for your download.

Today I came across this article from devArticles.com. The article is a description of what a CMS is, and what one can do for you. This article is centered on the advantages and disadvantages of CMS's and is well worth the 10 minutes to read.

Over at Linux Beginner, they have an interesting article on how to get KDE 3 running. Article excerpt and source links under read more.

The new version from today is: 6.13.10.6071. Apparently this is the same version as the developer driver leaked a few weeks ago. We have tested the new driver set with 3DMark2001 SE, Codecreatures Benchmark Pro, GLExcess and Aquamark. Read more to check out the results as well as some additional info.

Mods4me have expanded on alot of the old things in their article by request and added quite a few new things. They have also added a section called crappy "features" which they have updated to v 1.1 of their Win XP tweaking guide. They will be adding more content to this article as time goes by.

If you are afraid of being hacked or of having your computer invaded here's a PC tip from Digital Oracle.

If you use a firewall you can see what and whom is accessing your computer. Also if you are using a Windows NT based computer, such as NT4/2000/XP, there is another way of see who and what is connected to your computer, complete with location. This program is called netstat which you can access via the command prompt. Then just type netstat 10 and every 10 seconds you can see exactly what is connected to your computer. Very useful and ever more if u combine it with a tracer and a firewall. Anyway your choice.

Just got word from Martin that he's posted a new guide! So check out what he's got to say.

A comparison of memory bandwidth at 133Mhz FSB 133FSB with 166Mhz memory and pure 166Mhz FSB memory bandwidth compared. A bit of ranting at the manufacturers.

If you'd like to know how much more bandwidth you'll see by using a 166Mhz FSB then give this article at least a look!

Just saw this @ Xp-erience.org:

The guys in the forums started a thread called "My Favourite tweaks" a few weeks ago. Since then it has filled up with excellent tips & tweaks.

Ramanuman has done a great job and copied them all into couple of word Documents and then zipped it all up so we can make it available for everyone to download!

X-bios have done a quick performance comparison using 3DMark2001 SE /3DMark2000 and the newly leaked Nvidia Detonator 29.20 against the following Detonator driver sets 27.51 / 2880 / 2890 !

NVchips-fr have done a quick performance comparison using 3DMark2001 SE and the newly leaked Nvidia Detonator 29.11 against the following Detonator driver sets 27.20 / 27.30 / 27.42 / 27.70 / 28.32 / 28.90!

Just got word from Martin that he's just posted his new CPU & Chipset lapping guide up on Neoseeker. Here's what he's got to tell about it:

Every metal surface on every heatsink that I have ever seen has a lot of little imperfections in them. It simply isn't possible for the manufacturers to produce perfectly flat bottomed heatsinks. They are good enough for you to use but by doing something called lapping you can usually lower your temps a few degrees. Any real mod freak will want to lap the heatsink on your northbridge as well as the one on your CPU. Today we will be lapping our Northbridge heatsink but you can use the same principles on your CPU and heatsink!